Policy

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Pfizer are spinning out all HIV/AIDS-related R&D and marketed drugs into a separate, jointly-controlled company.

As governments plough in $3 trillion to stimulate growth, 52 major companies and leading climate change experts argue for policies to promote low carbon technology.

A national centre for sequencing plant, animal and microbial genomes is to be set up by the UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

There can’t be a city in Europe that is not trumpeting its entrepreneurial culture. A survey of entrepreneurs in 37 cities shows what they think of these efforts.

Bring on the science superstars: In an age when schoolchildren are obsessed with celebrity, they need to see science creates heroes too, writes Dave Madden.

International experts at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have agreed to simplify the structure of the international system for classifying patents.